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To: Knitting A Conundrum

I want to learn how to knit socks.


80 posted on 10/12/2005 2:45:36 PM PDT by little jeremiah (A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, are incompatible with freedom. P. Henry)
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To: little jeremiah

socks are not hard, especially if you don't kitchener the toes. Have you knitted on double pointed needles?


83 posted on 10/12/2005 3:08:05 PM PDT by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: little jeremiah

This is the easiest pattern I have found for knitting socks:

http://www.woolworks.org/patterns/anothersox.txt

if you can handle knitting in the round and understand how to sl 1 k1 psso, k2tog, and slip, knit, and purl, you can knit these socks, except there's an easier way to close the toe. Faster too - when you get to that last row where they tell you to kitchener the toes, you just cut a long tail of the yarn, grab a yarn needle or crochet hook, and run the yarn through the last 8 stitches, take your needles out and pull it closed like a drawstring. Run the yarn through a couple of times, and run it through to the inside, secure it, and you're done.

I never graft toes closed any more.


85 posted on 10/12/2005 3:19:53 PM PDT by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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